Quotes of Idries Shah

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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

- Idries Shah

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“ Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. ”

- Jack Thorne

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Warm someone's cheek Whisper Caress Kiss for 10 seconds, or more, or for the rest of your life Be there Love Long Belong Be loyal Be love Be with someone always Belong to yourself ”

- David C. Sarnacki

“ My poetry has been engraved with your name And my heart is by your memory scarred ”

- Zubair Ahsan

“ Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ Could you exist just for the art of existence? ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ I have come from the End of the World. From the River of Dreams, through the gauntlet and the Briar and the Deep Wyld, in order to stand before you today. I have but one request—to take my place at your side. To resume my duty as your knight, and to protect you and your kingdom for as long as I draw breath. ”

- Julie Kagawa

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. ”

- Randall Munroe

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Repentance is not at an end, Instead it’s the beginning of how it ends. ”

- Yeth Bisto

“ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ You are like nobody since I love you. ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ The only time we can effect an action is now. So learn from the past, have a vision for your future but act NOW. Today will soon be your past so don’t miss your present. ? ”

- Andrea McGibbon

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

- Subhasis Das

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff